Sever Strategic Ties With Haqqanis, Mullen Tells ISI, Pak Army

The ISI and the Pakistani military should sever the “direct and indirect” strategic ties with the dreaded Haqqani network to destablise Afghanistan, just retired top US commander Admiral Mike Mullen has said.

“In Haqqani is the most virulent insurgent group, terrorist group in Pakistan and a great supporter of al-Qaeda.

We’re losing Afghan civilians, Afghan soldiers, and we’re losing American soldiers because of the Haqqani network,” Mullen, the just retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN.

“But the intensity of the recent events and the strategic support that the ISI and the Pakistani military both give to the Haqqani network directly and indirectly, is what I was focused on,” Mullen said in defence of his remarks before the Senate Armed Services Committee last month where he said that ISI used the Haqqani network as a “veritable arm”.

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